Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Newcomb's Problem and Regret of Rationality - Less Wrong
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Robin, remember I have to build a damn AI out of this theory, at some point. A self-modifying AI that begins anticipating dynamic inconsistency - that is, a conflict of preference with its own future self - will not stay in such a state for very long... did the game theorists and economists work a standard answer for what happens after that?
If you like, you can think of me as defining the word "rationality" to refer to a different meaning - but I don't really have the option of using the standard theory, here, at least not for longer than 50 milliseconds.
If there's some nonobvious way I could be wrong about this point, which seems to me quite straightforward, do let me know.